House Mind

House Mind

A single shared model of the system's current understanding, read by every member before deliberating and updated after every verdict.

The five questions it can always answer

Question	Why it matters
What do we know?	established, graded, still-valid conclusions
What don't we know?	named gaps — an unknown that is written down stops being a blind spot
What do we believe?	current positions, with confidence
Why?	the evidence chain behind each belief
What changed our mind?	the belief-change record

The fifth is the one that makes the rest trustworthy. A system that can state what changed its mind is a system whose current position can be audited rather than merely accepted.

Belief revision

When Outcome Tracking grades a prediction and reality disagrees, the belief that predicted it has its confidence lowered — and the change is attributed to reality, not to a member, a model, or an author.

curl http://127.0.0.1:8766/api/house/state          # current understanding
curl http://127.0.0.1:8766/api/house/events         # live event stream (SSE)

Being wrong and recording it is the immune system of a long-lived system, not a wound.

Why shared

Fourteen members with fourteen private worldviews produce fourteen incompatible answers. One shared state means disagreement is about judgement, not about facts — which is the only kind of disagreement worth having.

It is a projection, not a second source

The House Mind is derived from Institutional Memory. It is a read model over the canonical store, never an independent one. If the two ever disagreed, the database is right.

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